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‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’
When money dies
$1,200 isn’t going to stretch very far for workers who have lost their jobs, or even for those still employed
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A strong constitution
It is a cherished axiom of the psychological class that the human psyche is almost infinitely sensitive and delicate
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Him too: is Alec Klein a predator — or a victim?
An unwanted shoulder rub is a bit sleazy but it hardly places a man beyond redemption
By Amber Duke
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Africa’s invisible epidemics
What I respected about the people in Baidoa was that every famine victim who died was an individual
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Is there any better place for an EU-subsidized arts festival than Galway?
I hoped my flight would be canceled but we left right on time
By William Cook
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Fear and adrenochrome
The conspiracy theory right is addicted to crazy ideas about a drug
By Ben Sixsmith
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Will American exceptionalism survive the pandemic?
By and large, the world’s most powerful and most expensive military establishment is not proving terribly relevant
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There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
From the Magazine
Whatever happened to dissent?
The British have bought the lockdown hook, line and non-thinker
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After the lockdown, the breakdown
The Trump administration’s $1,200 subvention to citizens is a drop in the swelling ocean of debt
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Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
From the Magazine
Books + Arts
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
By Will Lloyd
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Difficult women
Marjane Satrapi, the author-director of Persepolis, tells Sarah Ditum about her Marie Curie biopic, exile from Iran and fears for the future of democracy
By Sarah Ditum
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Tom Stoppard in isolation
If it were not for the terrors surrounding us, this is the life I’ve always wanted — social distancing without social disapproval
By Tom Stoppard
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Are women worse navigators than men?
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way by Michael Bond reviewed
By Sara Wheeler
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Mixed up math
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini reviewed
From the Magazine
Going both ways
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by
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What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
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Dedicated to literature
After Fault Lines, his acclaimed family history, David Pryce-Jones has written another kind of autobiography: Signatures, the memoirs of a bibliophile
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Joe Exotic is an ordinary American
He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune
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Life
Shrieks, shots and broken china: a visit to my rural French doctor
As we all sat in the waiting room, we wondered what social enormity the doctor might commit next
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Texas or Hell
‘You can go to Hell, but I am going to Texas,’ said Davy Crockett. I think he had a point
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Dwelling on death in Gstaad
Living dangerously helps put death in the right perspective
By Taki
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Ghost riders in the sky
In Lavenham, American history is unlocked by a pint of fine English ale
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It’s gonna be a long day with myself
Why am I so hungry? Oh because it’s noon and I’ve been on Twitter for four hours
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Heads in the cloud
Life in the age of COVID-19 is connected but unconnected
By Sam Leith
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Why ‘housewife’ is no more demeaning than ‘husband’
‘Housewife’ meaning ‘woman in charge of a household’ was also sometimes pronounced ‘husif’. By the 16th century it was worn down to ‘hussy’
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Food and Drink
Upper crust: a sweeter approach to sourdough
According to French tradition, it is wrong to throw away old bread because it is sacred
By Jane Stannus
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Cooking for dad: real food is nothing fancy
Alison Roman’s tastes are like my father’s: particular, strident and requiring a capacious definition of the word ‘unfussy’
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Wine is for lovers: mein Gott and yours
I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends
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